Literacy Dbq

Literacy has always been the key factor in human development and has helped people through tough times. In tough times people rely on the knowledge they have to get through the situation. Literacy is important in times a crisis because to know what's going on in the world you have to be able to read news articles, signs, directions and instructions. Literacy has helped people develop in ways unimaginable. Everything started with an idea , something to write with, and something to write on. Literacy has helped people express their thought, emotions and so much more. Literacy gives people the ability to explore other places without actually going anywhere. Books allow you to go back in time, go to other places and experience the world from a whole new perspective. Literacy has helped open peoples minds to new ideas. “ Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us to make them part of ourselves (document C). What David Ulin means by that is, when you read a book it consumes you and your
“I loved those books, but i also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life (Document A).” What Sherman meant by this was that literacy saved his life by giving him the knowledge to be successful. He grew up as a young indian who didn't have much in a society where indians were known to be stupid. But instead of falling under the stereotypical category he read. “I read anything that had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts of joy and desperation. (document A)” He read anything and anywhere he could to better understand the world around him. The small indian boy who didn't have much grew up to be a successful writer thanks to the art of